The UNI eLearning System experienced an unexpected outage around 3:00 p.m. CDT on Thursday, May 8, 2014. The outage was caused by an unusual huge spike in database activity most likely caused by one or more background jobs. The actual outage was brief (3-5 minutes) however users experienced system slowness until approximately 3:20 p.m. We apologize for the inconveniences this outage may have caused you.

Summer 2014 UNI eLearning academic courses were populated with students at 7:45 AM CDT this morning, Monday, May 5, 2014. Summer 2014 student enrollment will be imported into the UNI eLearning System daily, so all enrollment changes (adds/drops) will be automatically processed. Any changes entered in the Student Information System (SIS) by 5:00 PM will be processed the following day.

RESOLVED: The UNI eLearning (Blackboard Learn) performance issues were caused by network problems at Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the cloud service providers utilized by Blackboard Learn. Blackboard Inc. will be releasing patches in the near future that should prevent this problem from occurring again.---------------------------------------

RESOLVED: This UNI eLearning (Blackboard Learn) outage was caused by network problems at Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the cloud service providers utilized by Blackboard Learn. Blackboard Inc. will be releasing patches in the near future that should prevent this problem from occurring again.---------------------------------------

RESOLVED: There is no longer a delay in generating new reports for Turnitin.com as of approximately 5 a.m. CDT Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Turnitin submissions and report generation are back to normal operation.---------------------------------------UPDATE: Paper submissions returned to normal around 8 p.m. CDT on Monday, April 28, 2014, but Turnitin is still working to resolve delays in Report generation.---------------------------------------